When you choose a Pediatrician, look into their vaccination policy. A friend just told me that her Ped said she'd be better off at another practice if she didn't vaccinate. I don't know specifics, but assume they want her to vaccinate and she may feel uncomfortable there. She was vaccinating but just asking hypothetically. So just make sure you're pediatrician supports your choice. And if you're not able to breast feed talk to the doc about other options.

When you choose a Pediatrician, look into their vaccination policy. A friend just told me that her Ped said she'd be better off at another practice if she didn't vaccinate. I don't know specifics, but assume they want her to vaccinate and she may feel uncomfortable there. She was vaccinating but just asking hypothetically. So just make sure you're pediatrician supports your choice. And if you're not able to breast feed talk to the doc about other options.

The baby is not getting anti-bodies to those that we vaccinate for. Unless you get something while breastfeeding. Breast feeding wont prevent whooping cough, or menegetis. It will help prevent a cold or the flu. Its your personal choice but just because you are breast feeding you are not passing on those anti-bodies.

The baby is not getting anti-bodies to those that we vaccinate for. Unless you get something while breastfeeding. Breast feeding wont prevent whooping cough, or menegetis. It will help prevent a cold or the flu. Its your personal choice but just because you are breast feeding you are not passing on those anti-bodies.

Agree w/hopetobe! You strengthen baby's immune system with breastfeeding- it doesNOT take the place of immunizations. Children can die of these illnesses that vaccines protect against. Before formula and vaccines, kids died of childhood diseases. Nursing is a beneficial thing, but it's not a magic barrier against illness. If you choose to deviate from the immunization schedule, discuss it extensively with your baby's pediatrician. There may be specific reasons to delay vaccines for your child, yes. But there are real risks to it too and just deciding based on the anti-vax propaganda out there is why kids all over are sick with measles, pertussis and other things that are quite preventable.

Agree w/hopetobe! You strengthen baby's immune system with breastfeeding- it doesNOT take the place of immunizations. Children can die of these illnesses that vaccines protect against. Before formula and vaccines, kids died of childhood diseases. Nursing is a beneficial thing, but it's not a magic barrier against illness. If you choose to deviate from the immunization schedule, discuss it extensively with your baby's pediatrician. There may be specific reasons to delay vaccines for your child, yes. But there are real risks to it too and just deciding based on the anti-vax propaganda out there is why kids all over are sick with measles, pertussis and other things that are quite preventable.

Vaacines have changed since we were kids certain vaccines werent even around. I know with my daughter she had to an extra shot because they changed the PCV vaccine from 13 to 17 and she cant enter school unless she had so many of certain shots.

Vaacines have changed since we were kids certain vaccines werent even around. I know with my daughter she had to an extra shot because they changed the PCV vaccine from 13 to 17 and she cant enter school unless she had so many of certain shots.

Thankfully Texas still allows us to think for ourselves and has an exemption for school admission for reasons of conscience including religion or medical. We've also found a highly qualified and recommended pediatrician who is supportive of our plans for an alternative vaccination schedule.

Obviously there are some formulation changes in the past 30 years (DTP vs DTaP, etc.), and we will be using the updated formulations, but we will be limiting the vaccines received to those we received as children. Being that "certain vaccines werent even around" when we were young is the very reason we're following the 1983 schedule. We had 10 immunizations by the time we were 6 vs the 35+ they want to do now. There is no need to subject my two month old to 6 vaccinations at once (even if they are combined into few injections - the needle isn't the issue).

We live a very non-medically-interefered-with life for lack of a better term. We don't get annual flu shots (although we both chose to receive the pertussis vaccine before TTC) and we don't run to the doctor for every sniffle (which I can't honestly remember when DH or I were sick). We get physicals every year and have never had issues with our health. Our PCP even comments that he wishes all his patients were as healthy as we are. We are also far from health nuts. My mother is a nurse and my brother is a doctor so we're not medically ignorant; we are selective and choose to be informed as to the foreign substances we put into our bodies. Medical care for our LO will be managed in the same fashion.

Thankfully Texas still allows us to think for ourselves and has an exemption for school admission for reasons of conscience including religion or medical. We've also found a highly qualified and recommended pediatrician who is supportive of our plans for an alternative vaccination schedule.

Obviously there are some formulation changes in the past 30 years (DTP vs DTaP, etc.), and we will be using the updated formulations, but we will be limiting the vaccines received to those we received as children. Being that "certain vaccines werent even around" when we were young is the very reason we're following the 1983 schedule. We had 10 immunizations by the time we were 6 vs the 35+ they want to do now. There is no need to subject my two month old to 6 vaccinations at once (even if they are combined into few injections - the needle isn't the issue).

We live a very non-medically-interefered-with life for lack of a better term. We don't get annual flu shots (although we both chose to receive the pertussis vaccine before TTC) and we don't run to the doctor for every sniffle (which I can't honestly remember when DH or I were sick). We get physicals every year and have never had issues with our health. Our PCP even comments that he wishes all his patients were as healthy as we are. We are also far from health nuts. My mother is a nurse and my brother is a doctor so we're not medically ignorant; we are selective and choose to be informed as to the foreign substances we put into our bodies. Medical care for our LO will be managed in the same fashion.

I am just saying that they have changed like in 1983 you got OPV which was small pox you don't get that anymore. You get IPV which is Polio. We didn't get PCV in the 80s which pneumococcal conjugate vaccine which protects against Pneumococcal bacteria that can infect the sinuses and inner ear. It can also infect the lungs, blood, and brain.

I guess my question is how will you pick and chose which ones your child gets when some weren't even around in 1983 Like bacterial menegitis and others no longer are around like small pox.

Most of them are boosters because they are given in a lower dose then they were in 80s. So are you skipping all the boosters? if so what would that point be.

In the 80s you only got DTP, MMR and OPV which is small pox. Since OPV isn't around anymore you are only giving your child the Dtap and MMR.

I am not posting this to be a snot either. I am really interested in how that will be done.

I am just saying that they have changed like in 1983 you got OPV which was small pox you don't get that anymore. You get IPV which is Polio. We didn't get PCV in the 80s which pneumococcal conjugate vaccine which protects against Pneumococcal bacteria that can infect the sinuses and inner ear. It can also infect the lungs, blood, and brain.

I guess my question is how will you pick and chose which ones your child gets when some weren't even around in 1983 Like bacterial menegitis and others no longer are around like small pox.

Most of them are boosters because they are given in a lower dose then they were in 80s. So are you skipping all the boosters? if so what would that point be.

In the 80s you only got DTP, MMR and OPV which is small pox. Since OPV isn't around anymore you are only giving your child the Dtap and MMR.

We will replace the OPV with IPV (though I'm leaning towards opting out completely), do the MMR, and replace DTP with DTaP. As for the others, we will opt out. Hib is the only one not found in the previous schedule that I'm on the fence about. We will also have antibody titers drawn before boosters are administered. I didn't mean to come across as rude in my earlier post, I've just been explaining to the in-laws etc about this so I thought I'd lay it all out there.

We will replace the OPV with IPV (though I'm leaning towards opting out completely), do the MMR, and replace DTP with DTaP. As for the others, we will opt out. Hib is the only one not found in the previous schedule that I'm on the fence about. We will also have antibody titers drawn before boosters are administered. I didn't mean to come across as rude in my earlier post, I've just been explaining to the in-laws etc about this so I thought I'd lay it all out there.

That is understandable. I have been on fence about some vaccines as well. I know they do need some. chicken pox we all had a kids and they don't get the shot before 1 yrs old anyways. we don't do the flu shot. I did it once while pregnant and my son has been the sickest of my kids. My girls will not get the HPV vaccine when they are old enough.

That is understandable. I have been on fence about some vaccines as well. I know they do need some. chicken pox we all had a kids and they don't get the shot before 1 yrs old anyways. we don't do the flu shot. I did it once while pregnant and my son has been the sickest of my kids. My girls will not get the HPV vaccine when they are old enough.

I vaccinated both my kids and will be doing the same with this one. Before Christmas my friend's cousin buried her two year old from a preventable disease she opted not to vaccinate against. It was/is incredibly sad...

I vaccinated both my kids and will be doing the same with this one. Before Christmas my friend's cousin buried her two year old from a preventable disease she opted not to vaccinate against. It was/is incredibly sad...

I'm not vaccinating this baby at all. I vaccinated my son all the way until he was 2yo. My twins were vaccinated until they were 4mo and that's when I did my research and decided that the benefits of vaccines did not out weigh the risks. It doesn't bother me when people want to hate on that opinion because I was very pro-vaccine before I stopped just listening to what the dr's were saying and looked into things for myself. In theory I'd like to believe that vaccinations are good things but when you look at the ingredients, it's really hard to say that they are.

I'm not vaccinating this baby at all. I vaccinated my son all the way until he was 2yo. My twins were vaccinated until they were 4mo and that's when I did my research and decided that the benefits of vaccines did not out weigh the risks. It doesn't bother me when people want to hate on that opinion because I was very pro-vaccine before I stopped just listening to what the dr's were saying and looked into things for myself. In theory I'd like to believe that vaccinations are good things but when you look at the ingredients, it's really hard to say that they are.

You should do more research. Your baby only gets a couple antibodies from you when you breast feed. Vaccinations are different-they provide an immunity via exposure. So they are two completely different things. Please educate yourself. While it sounds like you are trying to do what's best for baby, your comment is completely ignorant.

You should do more research. Your baby only gets a couple antibodies from you when you breast feed. Vaccinations are different-they provide an immunity via exposure. So they are two completely different things. Please educate yourself. While it sounds like you are trying to do what's best for baby, your comment is completely ignorant.

It's simple. Google children with: Hib, polio, whooping cough, tetanus etc and then you decide if you are ok with seeing your child suffer through those diseases. Your infant is not protected bc you breast feed. It is protected from common viruses not diseases. And remember when your child comes down with a particular disease, some of the side effects of those diseases can leave your child lifeless, blind, paralyzed etc. So just as you risk the vaccines, you risk double by allowing your child to come in contact with those diseases. My son is vaccinated and I plan to do the same for my daughter. The odds of something happening from vaccine are so so so low that it's worth it for me. But to each it's own! That's the great thing about life! We can all make the decisions we feel is best for our kids!

It's simple. Google children with: Hib, polio, whooping cough, tetanus etc and then you decide if you are ok with seeing your child suffer through those diseases. Your infant is not protected bc you breast feed. It is protected from common viruses not diseases. And remember when your child comes down with a particular disease, some of the side effects of those diseases can leave your child lifeless, blind, paralyzed etc. So just as you risk the vaccines, you risk double by allowing your child to come in contact with those diseases. My son is vaccinated and I plan to do the same for my daughter. The odds of something happening from vaccine are so so so low that it's worth it for me. But to each it's own! That's the great thing about life! We can all make the decisions we feel is best for our kids!

Children need to get all of there vaccines at the recommended time! They have not study these alternative schedules or spacing out? These studies have been done on millions of children. They are given at certain times bc the little one immune systems are still forming. Many parents say I don't want to overload there system. But that is the best time through studies to give them. What difference does it make if you wait? Your just making your child remember more bc you take them back frequently to get shots and the only outcome I see to that is they than become afraid of the dr and think shot everything you go there. I need to post a great article on here let me find it. Also it makes me angry to know my child not even born yet will be in a waiting room full of children that have not been fully immunized because if some reason. Your exposing them to other infants, not fair. Sorry if I sound angry but I am a pediatric nurse and I am 100 % for ALL vaccines. bc parents don't vaccinate or choose to wait all of these childhood diseases are making a come back!

Children need to get all of there vaccines at the recommended time! They have not study these alternative schedules or spacing out? These studies have been done on millions of children. They are given at certain times bc the little one immune systems are still forming. Many parents say I don't want to overload there system. But that is the best time through studies to give them. What difference does it make if you wait? Your just making your child remember more bc you take them back frequently to get shots and the only outcome I see to that is they than become afraid of the dr and think shot everything you go there. I need to post a great article on here let me find it. Also it makes me angry to know my child not even born yet will be in a waiting room full of children that have not been fully immunized because if some reason. Your exposing them to other infants, not fair. Sorry if I sound angry but I am a pediatric nurse and I am 100 % for ALL vaccines. bc parents don't vaccinate or choose to wait all of these childhood diseases are making a come back!

Do what you feel in your heart is best for you and your child.. Do not listen to others and go against your own gut because I do believe that we should always stick to what we feel is right... As far as the convo with regards to vaccine schedule.. Why don't we ask ourselves why in the Scandinavian countries they vaccinate far less and yet the have one of the healthiest populations in the world? Something to think about!

Do what you feel in your heart is best for you and your child.. Do not listen to others and go against your own gut because I do believe that we should always stick to what we feel is right... As far as the convo with regards to vaccine schedule.. Why don't we ask ourselves why in the Scandinavian countries they vaccinate far less and yet the have one of the healthiest populations in the world? Something to think about!

Yes but we live in America where all sorts of travelers come and bring all different types of vaccine related illnesses. We have these vaccine to prevent and we live in a country where even if we didn't have health insurance you can still get vaccinated. some countries can't even afford a 7 cent mmr vaccine( not sure how much it is but it's pretty cheap) remember last year during the super bowl when a child w/ the Measles exposed thousands of people? It is on the raise. Why make your child possibly have to suffer? I get it scary but please people do REAL research use a legit website such as the CDC and American Pediatrics anyone can post things about there opinion but these are scientist and Dr who have done studies are hundreds of years.

Yes but we live in America where all sorts of travelers come and bring all different types of vaccine related illnesses. We have these vaccine to prevent and we live in a country where even if we didn't have health insurance you can still get vaccinated. some countries can't even afford a 7 cent mmr vaccine( not sure how much it is but it's pretty cheap) remember last year during the super bowl when a child w/ the Measles exposed thousands of people? It is on the raise. Why make your child possibly have to suffer? I get it scary but please people do REAL research use a legit website such as the CDC and American Pediatrics anyone can post things about there opinion but these are scientist and Dr who have done studies are hundreds of years.

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